Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 164

Altamish had sons also; but when he was dying he said: “You will find no one better fitted to rule the kingdom than my daughter Raziya.”

Who acts: Altamish, You · What happens: have, die, say, find, fit, rule · To what, where: sons, one, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Altamish, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Altamish	Altamish	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	also	also	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 dying	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dying	aux
10	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 fitted	advmod
21	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 find	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rule	mark
23	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fitted	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kingdom	det
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rule	obj
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 daughter	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 daughter	nmod:poss
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rule	obl
29	Raziya	Raziya	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 daughter	appos
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Altamish	sons		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	die	past · progressive	Altamish			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past	Altamish			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	find in a quote	future	You	no one		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
5	fit in a quote	participle	You not said here		well property	tree rules
6	rule in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here	the kingdom	than my daughter	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 164

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 164